Pen name

Quality:

Pen name - pseudonym adopted by an author (or a group of authors) and printed on the title page in place of their real name. Article “Pen name” in Simple English Wikipedia has 13.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Pen name”, its content was written by 18 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 776 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 145 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 11432 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #536 in September 2006
• Global: #245 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #45 in July 2011
• Global: #27542 in December 2016

There are 23 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Pen name		36.5711
2	Portuguese (pt) Nome fictício		30.0634
3	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Književni pseudonim		28.8491
4	Spanish (es) Nombre de pluma		23.1777
5	Serbian (sr) Књижевни псеудоним		23.0337
6	Indonesian (id) Nama pena		16.59
7	Japanese (ja) ペンネーム		14.8323
8	Simple English (simple) Pen name		13.5375
9	Turkish (tr) Mahlas		12.7677
10	Ukrainian (uk) Криптонім		11.4698

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pen name		4 567 781
2	Japanese (ja) ペンネーム		564 597
3	Persian (fa) تخلص		382 189
4	Turkish (tr) Mahlas		280 330
5	Chinese (zh) 筆名		164 365
6	Thai (th) นามปากกา		111 795
7	Indonesian (id) Nama pena		96 273
8	Russian (ru) Криптоним		90 402
9	Korean (ko) 필명		79 027
10	Finnish (fi) Nimimerkki		49 589

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pen name		12 340
2	Japanese (ja) ペンネーム		1 769
3	Persian (fa) تخلص		928
4	Chinese (zh) 筆名		591
5	Turkish (tr) Mahlas		434
6	Russian (ru) Криптоним		366
7	Spanish (es) Nombre de pluma		361
8	Swedish (sv) Författarnamn		152
9	Korean (ko) 필명		127
10	Indonesian (id) Nama pena		114

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pen name		405
2	Japanese (ja) ペンネーム		86
3	Thai (th) นามปากกา		35
4	Chinese (zh) 筆名		34
5	Persian (fa) تخلص		31
6	Turkish (tr) Mahlas		27
7	Finnish (fi) Nimimerkki		23
8	Simple English (simple) Pen name		18
9	Urdu (ur) تخلص		15
10	Korean (ko) 필명		14

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pen name		1
2	Arabic (ar) اسم قلمي		0
3	Esperanto (eo) Plumonomo		0
4	Spanish (es) Nombre de pluma		0
5	Persian (fa) تخلص		0
6	Finnish (fi) Nimimerkki		0
7	Indonesian (id) Nama pena		0
8	Japanese (ja) ペンネーム		0
9	Korean (ko) 필명		0
10	Malay (ms) Nama pena		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: List of European countries, Black, List of sex positions, 2026 Iran war, Suresh Raina, Politics of Germany, Academy Award for Best Director, 2020, DYSS-TV, 2022.

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